There’s nothing that stands out about Tyler Mahle’s pitching mix when it comes to movement or velocity.

His four-seamer is slower than average. It doesn’t have more ride than average. His changeup has less horizontal movement than his four-seamer, a trick that nobody else in baseball cares to try to pull. His slider is almost an exact match for league average in every way. His curveball is below average in every way.

There’s one elite thing that Mahle does that makes it all work: He commands the ball.

Mahle showed up as having the eighth-best overall command by STATS LLC’s new Command+ number we debuted here last week, missing targets by a smaller distance than anyone not named Kyle Hendricks or Alex Wood. All of his pitches showed as having above-average command, but his fastball stands out. It’s easily his best pitch in all regards.

Nowhere is his command more obvious than the minute he gets ahead in the count.